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The idea that some banks are "too big to fail" became common in 1984 when Continental Illinois was on the brink of failure. The seventh-largest bank in the U.S. at the time, Continental Illinois had $40 billion in assets, but many of those assets were bad loans, and investor fears of its failure led to a run on deposits that the FDIC responded to with an unprecedented bailout. The FDIC and other regulators feared that a complete collapse of the bank could lead to a larger financial crisis, and to avert that crisis, risk investors (bond holders) as well as insured depositors were bailed out. This begs the question: How could a bank of this size have been considered pivotal to...

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Arriving in Baltimore for college in 2004 from her native New York City, Vienna DeGiacomo assumed she would quickly head back north after graduating from Goucher College.
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